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Funny you should mention it! There are currently wide-spread riots in France protesting a rise in fuel taxes as unaffordable for the lower class. And, quite o

Funny you should mention it! There are currently wide-spread riots in France protesting a rise in fuel taxes as unaffordable for the lower class. And, quite obviously, it’s trivial to find “far left policies” that aren’t implemented. None of these countries is communist. Abolishing private property would seem to be a far-left thing to do, no?

agsdfgsd 8y ago
>There are currently wide-spread riots in France protesting a rise in fuel taxes as unaffordable for the lower class. So the left wing government says "French people are too wealthy and drive too much so we're going to take their money and give it to people in developing nations to make things more equal", and you present this (and people's disapproval of it) as evidence they are right wing?
- sctb 8y ago
  If you keep engaging in tedious political flamewars we'll ban the account. Hacker News is not a tedious political flamewar site. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - agsdfgsd 8y ago
    Can you please explain more clearly what constitutes a political flamewar? The only definitions of flamewar I can find suggest it means insulting people. I have not done anything of the sort. And I can not find anything in the guidelines that I have not followed. Do you mean just don't ever post anything that may be controversial? You don't ban the people who actually bring up the controversial issues with a left wing bias, often openly insulting to anyone who disagrees. You only ban the people who respond (politely and without insults) with the wrong opinion. If the actual rules include "far-left opinions only" then put that in the written rules so I know and will leave. But if you are going to maintain the pretense that this site is politically neutral and is for "hackers" rather than "hackers whose opinions I agree with", then I will continue to post within the written rules just as I always have.
village-idiot 8y ago
To be fair, a riot in France is a sign that the French are still French.

agsdfgsd 8y ago

>There are currently wide-spread riots in France protesting a rise in fuel taxes as unaffordable for the lower class. So the left wing government says "French people are too wealthy and drive too much so we're going to take their money and give it to people in developing nations to make things more equal", and you present this (and people's disapproval of it) as evidence they are right wing?

sctb 8y ago
If you keep engaging in tedious political flamewars we'll ban the account. Hacker News is not a tedious political flamewar site. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- agsdfgsd 8y ago
  Can you please explain more clearly what constitutes a political flamewar? The only definitions of flamewar I can find suggest it means insulting people. I have not done anything of the sort. And I can not find anything in the guidelines that I have not followed. Do you mean just don't ever post anything that may be controversial? You don't ban the people who actually bring up the controversial issues with a left wing bias, often openly insulting to anyone who disagrees. You only ban the people who respond (politely and without insults) with the wrong opinion. If the actual rules include "far-left opinions only" then put that in the written rules so I know and will leave. But if you are going to maintain the pretense that this site is politically neutral and is for "hackers" rather than "hackers whose opinions I agree with", then I will continue to post within the written rules just as I always have.

village-idiot 8y ago

To be fair, a riot in France is a sign that the French are still French.